Spring is the absolute best time of year to catch bass near the bank. Smallmouths, largemouths, and spotted bass all flood the shallows each spring to spawn. As part of their annual ritual, the bass ...

The best fishing lures for forward-facing sonar users, featuring baits that show up clearly, stay visible, and trigger bites in real time.

Summer fishing is great, but if you have a jones for big, wild brown trout and smallmouth bass, there’s nothing like the fall and early winter. It’s been written many times that this is when these ...

The bass were hitting every lure I threw in this video! Crankbaits, chatter baits, texas rigs, buzz baits, and jigs were all on the menu in this one! I tried fishing a new pond with my buddy Connor in ...

A proper listing of the best fishing lures ever needs a nod to that history and must give deference to the lures that “changed the game,” the lures with origin stories that are shared often among ...

The bass fishing year can be divided into three seasons, and each calls for its own lures and meth­ods. At all times, however, water temperature and light intensity greatly affect the willingness of ...

With forward-facing sonar (FFS) dominating so much of the bass-talk the past few years, the arrival of fall can be a satisfying return to “old-school” chunkin’ and windin’ among the extreme shallows ...

These were the bass baits—and mindset shifts—that defined my 2025 season and helped me catch more and bigger largemouth bass.

Winter tactics are in full swing for catching black bass. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said good lure choices include Alabama rigs, jerk baits, crawdad-colored crank baits and swim ...

An aerial view of Kentucky will show many circular pods of water scattered across the landscape. Some have trails made by cattle coming to them for a drink, some are ringed with large trees, some have ...

Striped bass hooked in the New Jersey surf on a T-Hex metal—a variation of the classic diamond jig. Photo Courtesy of Matt Farrell. Metal lures are boring. Scan the pegboard at any saltwater tackle ...